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183) Harriet Tubman
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated exploration of the life of Harriet Tubman that covers her childhood, experiences as a slave, escape to freedom, work on the Underground Railroad, antislavery activism, and other topics.
184) Harriet Tubman
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life and work of Harriet Tubman, who helped free slaves through the Underground Railroad and continued helping freed slaves after the Civil War.
Author
Series
Brown mountain lights volume 3
Publisher
Spring Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An abolitionist, Lizzie lives in a state that has seceded from the Union and finds herself, as a woman of that era, unable to protect slaves being mistreated by their plantation owners as well as women who suffer at the hands of their husbands, without rights or laws to protect them. Lizzie continues to learn herbal healing from the Collins sisters while helping her beau Josh transport runaway slaves to safety via the Underground Railroad. She begins...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 256 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the North set off violent confrontations that left participants and local residents enraged and embittered. Historian Robert H. Churchill places the Underground Railroad in the context of a geography of violence, a shifting landscape in which clashing norms of violence shaped the activities of slave catchers...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts how Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the 1840s, helped a fleeing slave escape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
194) Seven for a secret
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1846 New York six months after the formation of the NYPD, officer Timothy Wilde investigates a ring of "blackbirders" who kidnap free people of color in the North and sell them to Southern plantations.
195) Freedom river
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
198) Harriet Tubman
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African American woman who spent her childhood in slavery and later worked to help other slaves escape north to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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